Example sentences of "he [vb -s] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos he plays a bit of guitar , |
| 2 | I mean he plays a lot of croquet . |
| 3 | While he discerns a bank of computers by the wall ( one student is typing up minutes of the monthly group meeting now in progress ) , Michael begins to feel a little more at home in this rather ramshackle world . |
| 4 | Yet the very specially acute sense of deprivation found in the shorter of the two versions to be examined here argues the recognition of the possibility of the presence of just such joy ; " absence is not non-existence , and we are therefore entitled to repeat , " " come , come , come , come : " " " and both Rolle 's meditations on the Passion are such powerful works precisely because he enacts a sense of the gap between the body of sin and the joy of God and a longing to close it through penitence and love . |
| 5 | Quickly he records a message of warning , but before he can launch it the Daleks locate and kill him . |
| 6 | He rubs a gout of Brylcreem with pipe-smoking palms , |
| 7 | In a word he offers a cornucopia of man 's hopes and experiences , his successes and his frustrations , set in Canada , but energised by a trans-historical and global outlook of classical mythology and biblical settings . |
| 8 | He offers a variety of accommodation . |
| 9 | He offers a view of the Gulf war that has become increasingly fashionable even though it is probably wrong . |
| 10 | The third main emphasis in his critique of the concept of the postmodern is to attempt to explain the hold exercised by a demonstrably deficient theory of culture and its dependence on a fundamentally irrationalist philosophy : which is to say he offers a politics of the postmodern . |
| 11 | He offers an interpretation of Greek drama , in come ways anticipating Hegel 's , which brings to the fore the question of tragic guilt . |
| 12 | This is virtually Nithard 's last word ; and he offers an explanation of Adalard 's power : " Caring little for the public good , he devoted himself to pleasing everyone . |
| 13 | He smokes and he drinks a lot of beer . |
| 14 | Perhaps he drinks a lot of beer . |
| 15 | Perhaps he drinks a lot of beer . |
| 16 | In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role . |
| 17 | Neither a sociological nor a psychological type , he represents an assemblage of mental attitudes , providing a kind of vade-mecum and at the same time an ironic counterpoint to the anxieties of a public that is presumed by the book itself to have lost faith in totalizing explanations and englobing narratives . |
| 18 | But he thinks a score of 8,300 would be enough to win , compared to his world record of 8,847 , so he will not rule it out . |
| 19 | I do n't know who she is , but he thinks a lot of her . |
| 20 | The requirement is equally complied with if he receives a document of title from his seller and then transfers to the innocent sub-purchaser a different document of title relating to the same goods , Mount v. Jay ( 1960 Q.B. ) . |
| 21 | So if a man can prove that he has obeyed every law for six years , he receives a present of money from the King . |
| 22 | There are n states of nature and he receives a return of if he takes action i and the state is j . |
| 23 | He wins a lot of ball in the line-outs and as such is a useful character to have at top level , in tandem with a big no.8 . |
| 24 | If he wins a lot of breeders will think they too should go back to school . |
| 25 | A beaming bonhomme , with the confiding smile of Harpo Marx , he produces a range of conjuring tricks and juggling , seemingly as surprised as us that they actually work , but so winning is his personality that nobody would worry if they did n't . |
| 26 | Because Neil plays very hard he produces a lot of power through the pickups , and he has recently realised that he ca n't just put any pickup with any EQ system , otherwise the signal from the bass simply overloads things … |
| 27 | He flicks through his computer in search of the file marked : ‘ Over-confidence ; The Perils Of , ’ and he produces a stream of anodyne phrases which might have been scripted at Anfield or Old Trafford : ‘ Take nothing for granted … great respect for the opposition … must get it right on the day . ’ |
| 28 | Foucault adopts a strategy , obviously indebted to Bachelard , designed to restore the otherness that History by definition must disallow : he produces an account of epistemic shifts , with prior epistemes presented as altogether estranged from the present . |
| 29 | He looks a picture of innocence does n't he ? |
| 30 | and he causes a lot of problems for the opposition . |